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Re: Printing time in "at" format?

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On 11/20/12 10:18, Roy Smith wrote:
> I need to talk to an API which requires (for reasons totally beyond my
> comprehension), time specified in "at" format, i.e. the format
> accepted by the unix "at" command.  This allows you to do such bizarre
> things as use "teatime" to indicate 4:00 PM.  The best I can find for
> a specification is http://tinyurl.com/d5vddoa.
> 
> Before I dive into this too far, has anybody already written some code
> which formats times like that?

Your statement can be ambiguously parsed as "I need to merely
*generate* time specifications that 'at' can parse", or it can be
parsed as "I need to generate *and consume* time specifications the
same way as 'at' does"

If it's the former, it's pretty easy--'at' accepts a wide variety of
formats.

If it's the latter, I've got a doc in

  /usr/share/doc/at/timespec

on my Debian machine, which seems to be googleable, but here's one
copy of it

http://fts.ifac.cnr.it/cgi-bin/dwww/usr/share/doc/at/timespec

I don't have a parser already, but that should get you a jump start
on what (at least Debian's) 'at' parses, and might tie nicely with
pyparsing.

-tkc

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Printing time in "at" format? roy@panix.com (Roy Smith) - 2012-11-20 11:18 -0500
  Re: Printing time in "at" format? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-11-20 12:16 -0600
  Re: Printing time in "at" format? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-11-20 13:24 -0500
  Re: Printing time in "at" format? Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2012-11-21 13:14 +0100

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